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Jasons 2003 VY executive 'By Design'

Discussion in 'VY - VZ - WK - WL - V2' started by esca_ByDesign, Jun 2, 2010.

  1. esca_ByDesign

    esca_ByDesign Clean and Classy

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    got door resprayed and looks really good now.
    rear manual window regulator fixed :)
    went to holden and bought some WK repeaters as talked about earlier, look wicked but lights arnt as orange as before, maybe i need a different globe?
    4th july booked in with phreddy for dash and morphing needles and AUX input :)
    hopefully getting SL next week from swapping with my old springs, hopefully front wont need to go down anymore do you reckon? im pretty sure i have lows atm
    next? tail lights (sv8 off ebay for 350$ :( ) then white headlights and parkers. also rear window re tinted as its ****ing bugging me now all blurry :mad:

    where is a good place to get a new front bumper, im tossing up whether calais or ss, will i need new headlights if i get calais bumper? or just the grill (there are way too many stone chips in it)

    pics will be up when i find my iphone cord haha

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    you'll need new headlights and grill if u want a calais bumper. if u get an ss front, you'll just need the grill
     
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    esca_ByDesign Clean and Classy

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    ah sweet, not sure if its worth it yet, gotta sort out funds and see if its on the cards, would rather go the calais rear bumper and get the tail lights cause they are some sexy tail lights :)
     
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    esca_ByDesign Clean and Classy

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    new pics, chrome door handles, WK side repeaters, door resprayed, tow bar taken off, chrome boot garnish and 6 stacker cd player xD coming along nicely, getting dash and AUX done by phreddy on sunday (next sunday) then pics will come up, loving the wet weather spinning them near my house :)

    what do you guys reckon about premium fuel? is it a joke? should i not bother for a V6 lol? does it work better long term? just started putting it in lately and getting a few more km's and seems to be running better but i could be fooling myself,

    let me know what you think i should do next.


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    Car is looking amazing mate. I think after seeing this i have settled on buying VY SS Wheels myself haha.
     
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    haha yeah mate i love them, still tossing up whether to get senators or go for vy ss 19" (if they make them), once i get SL's it will look awesome i think

    also looking up white headlights, i know you get what you pay for and im not gonna buy asian **** but do you think these will just swap over? and is it hard to do? i know my VS was a C**T to do haha,

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    they only come in 17s and 18s bud

    also that lip on the rear bar, is that part of the bumper or is it attatched to the bumper?
     
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    esca_ByDesign Clean and Classy

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    nah its part of the bumper, i think it is connected to the body kit part, dont all executives have it? its a bit of a pain cause the dust and **** gets caught in the corners and i cant get it out easily lol.
     
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    nup, execs rear is like this: [​IMG]

    i didnt think yours was an ss bar since the bottom part looks like its flared out a bit more but i could be wrong
     
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    esca_ByDesign Clean and Classy

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    What do you mean not genuine? I asked the mechanic to take the tow bar off but he said it wasn't worth it.

    It's part of the hbr (I think it's called) lip kit which came with the car.

    Are those lights from Australia? Do they look blue as?? I think I might get them :)

    Not sure if I should get as front bar, if I can get a cheap respray for it ill get one off eBay :)
     
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    UPDATE!!!

    - drove to seaford to swap springs with VS32 (good bloke) and got them fitted that day, look awesome, sit a tad higher than SL's (because they are pedders) but im wrapped with them :) didnt want them too low so perfect, what do ya think?

    - got platinum white (7500K) headlights today and fitted them (a bit of a bitch haha) but havent drove with them at night but they are the 7500K so i asusme they will be bright as ****, thanks D3CID3R for the link to the site

    - got white parkers that go well with the white headlights, i hate seeing all those fkn BMW's with white headlights and halogen parkers, just looks like **** sorry lol

    - got chrome handbrake cover and gear shifter knob, found out how to change the gear shifter one over the hard way, snapped it off accidently then said "OH! thats how it works" haha ah well it was going in the bin anyway.

    - bought 4, cadence 3 way, 6" speakers ready for when i get around to putting sound system in, so now ive got 4 speakers and amp, just need RCA converter (ebay for 44$) and wiring then install.

    anyone know anyone who installs car audio cheap but good? doesnt need to be too cheap but i just dont trust JB HI FI lol. any help would be good as i dont know anyone who would :|

    next? paying off my debt a bit haha but then tail lights, wheels, sound system and gauges,

    SUNDAY will be dropping car off to phreddy, so excited cant wait :), getting blue dash with white to blue morphing needles, blue headunit, AUX input and a mix of white and blue for the rest of the lights :).

    will post pics of that sunday night but for now these are what ive got :) let me know what you think, cheers

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    Your welcome :)
    BTW that ride height is hot.. need to meet up sometime mate :)
     
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    The needles morphs from (insert colour you want needle to be) to red or whatever colour you want when you hit redline.

    It's a great mod! And relativiley cheap to!



    Great car mate, I'd be happy as a Red P-Plater!
     
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    yeah im not sure about the red though, i saw a vid and it looks like pink in between and i definately dont want that haha, ive always loved blue and phreddy said white looks great with blue :) i was thinking when it was lets say at 60km/h it would be a lighter blue (white mixed with blue) than the dash colour so would stand out, anyway hopefully it will turn out ok, worst comes to worse i hate it and ay phreddy a tad more to change it from blue to red haha.

    yeah thanks D3CID3R im loving it atm, where are you from around here? i dont have many cruising buddies (all guys who wouldnt even know where the oil went haha, not that im an expert) so id love to go for a drive sometime, check out the competition haha.

    cheers boys
     
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    Ryley VZSV6

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    Yeah, so what colour are you getting your Taco when it hits limiter/redline?
     
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    its gonna fade from white (when you turn the car on) to blue, it was the safest choice i think, i love the white needles and was always gonna get them, so i had to pick a colour to change to, it was either red, purple or blue. red and purple he said would look pink so i decided on blue, it wouldnt be until i was going 5000RPM or 140km/h that it would be blue on blue, so it will look good.....i hope :| looking at D3CID3R's dash im thinking that looks awesome, but no turning back now, ive already changed my mind 3 times and phreddy has bought the wrong ones so i feel bad enough haha, cant change it 3 days out from doing it haha.
     
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    Haha, hope everything goes well! I was told that the speedo doesn't go into the redzone? Maybe it's different for a VZ Cluster, my speedo doesn't have a redzone.
     
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    okay i found out a bit more about that kit you have since i needed the rear part.

    turns out they're a HBD HSVi kit apparently, thats what the guy told me..... the rear clip on bar itself was 220 raw unpainted, so do the math for the skirts and front lip.... you have quite an expensive kit there haha

    i just wasnt prepared to pay 220 for just the lip so i went to the wreckers and got a second hand s pac rear bar :)
     
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    great looking car with the hbd kit on it m8 will look great when you get the tail lights and head lights :)
     

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